The CNN headline says, “Feed likely source of salmonella in eggs, federal officials say.” This as the egg recall expands to 550 million eggs from two mega-egg-producers in Iowa, with tainted eggs traced to 23 states and almost 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.
Kind of makes you wonder what those mega-farmers feed their chickens. Sustainable Table [...]
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Half a Billion Eggs Recalled
Sustainable Saints, or Loam-Loving Luddites?
This post by Kerry Trueman was originally posted on The Green Fork.
Have you heard the truth about just how bad the good food movement really is? The boosters of biotech want you to know that our global food crisis will only be worsened by the sustainable ag advocates who oppose [...]
Canada’s Egg Police: Industry vs. Small Farmers
In Canada, a small farmer with 99 or fewer hens can sell “ungraded” eggs at his/her gate, but nowhere else. So a small farmer who sells eggs at the farmers market is breaking the law. With prices for farmstead eggs skyrocketing, industrial egg producers are fighting back against what they see as an infringement [...]
The Cheese Handbook
(Joi image.)
“Scientific investigation… has made industrial cheese making more efficient, which is a less pleasant thought, for the inevitable concomitant of idustrial efficiency has been a standard of meditocrity…” –The Cheese Handbook (Bruce H. Axler), available on Google Books.
Considering meat
Americans eat an average of 222 pounds of meat each year. Though we only rank 17th in world per capita consumption (Denmark ranks #1, followed by the Czech Republic and Spain), that’s still a lot of meat– roughly 73 billion pounds per year, the equivalent of 146 million heifers or 18 billion chickens.
We eat more chicken [...]
Dairying in 1784
Dairying has a long and distinguished history. The passage above comes from J. Twaley, Dairying Exemplified, or The Business of Cheesemaking (London, 1784) p. 18, courtesy of Google Books.
Note the assumption that daries were run by women. Historically, milking cows and the associated dairy production was considered “women’s work,” inappropriate for men. Thus well into the [...]
There Can Be Only One
(Wal-Mart photo.)
Time Magazine reports that Wal-Mart has a plan: to put as many of its remaining competitors out of business as it can. And financial writer Jeff Hwang at Motley Fool notes that Wal-Mart already exerts an emormous amount of leverage over its suppliers:
“Wal-Mart accounts for 28% of Dial’s sales, 24% of Del Monte Foods’ sales, and [...]
What Industrial Food Has Given Us
Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, discusses the health dangers that industrial food has given us.
Are there health dangers with food from small farms? Certainly risks exist. But they’re not big news, because when they do occur, they are localized and not a national threat.
Who Decides What Potatoes You Eat?
(Svadilfari photo.)
Who gets to decide what food you eat? In the case of potatoes, it’s McDonalds. Says AP:
Because McDonald’s buys more than 3.4 billion pounds of U.S. potatoes annually, it has the power to dictate whether a variety sprouts or winds up in the less-lucrative supermarket freezer’s crinklecut bin — or worse yet, banished to [...]
